Archive for the ‘performance monitoring’ Category

Tuning AIX systems for WebSphere Application Server 6.0.x

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

IBM recommends a number of configuration changes and variables you can set to tune the performance of Websphere to suit your needs. Because the AIX operating system is not a WebSphere Application Server product, be aware that it can change and results can vary. Procedure Change the following configuration settings or variables ...

Log SAR output to a file for later replay / analysis

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Commands below are for Linux, but the idea works everywhere 'sadc' is available. 1) Start /usr/lib/sa/sadc Example machine1:~ # /usr/lib/sa/sadc 2 7200 sadc.outfile this logs SAR data for 4 hours. 2) Stop logging, do 'killall sadc' or 'kill' 3) Usage of sar. Creating report with all options sar -A -f Example machine1:~ # sar -A -f sadc.outfile > sar.outfile machine1:~ # cat ...